Tire-tightener



-( ModeL) J. B. GYPBRT.

TIRE TIGHTBNER.

No. 262,010. l Patented Aug. 1, 1882.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEETCE.

JESSEE B. GYPERT, OF WAYNESBOROUGH, TENNESSEE.

TIRE-TIGHTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 262,010, dated August 1, 1882.

Application filed June 2. 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JEssEE B. GYPERT, ot'

Waynesborough, in the county of Wayne and4 State of Tennessee, have invented certain new" tion, and in which- Figure l ,is a perspective View of my improved tire-tightener, and Fig. 2 is a side view of' the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

My in ven tion has relation to devices for tightening the tires of vehicle-wheels', Src.; and it consists in the detailed construction and combination of parts of a device or implement ot' that class, as hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, A represents the staff or brace of my improved tiretightener, which is bifurcated at its lower end, with its feet a a bulging outwardly and terminating in shoes b l). The upper end of the staff is bent at right angles, as shown at A', and has a screw threaded aperture, through which is'inserted the screw B, having a nut, O, and provided at its upper end with a Xed head,l), which has a lip, d, on one side. The lower end of the screw is inserted through a guide-collar, E, attiXed to and projecting from the stad A below its projection A.

Tol use this device for expanding and tight ening tires, the shoes b b are placed against inserted between the band on the hub and the spoke to hold head D in place and preventit from slipping or turning. By now screwing up the nut C the wheel is expanded, and may, with the adjacent fellies, be kept in the expanded position by inserting split washers, of leather or other suitable material, around the tenoned end of the spoke next to the felly. The guide sleeve or collar E insures a true motion of the screw in operating the device.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States* The tire tightener herein shown and described, consisting of the staif or body A, having screw threaded projection A', and bifurcated bulging legs a a., provided with the shoes b b, and guide-collar E, in combination with the .screw B, havingnutG, and provided with the iixed head l), having the lip d, substantially as and for the purpose herein' shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own Irhave hereunto affixed my signature in presence'of two witnesses.

JESSEE BUNDY CYPERT.

Witnesses: V

PEYTON H. CRAIG, HENRY A. HELToN. 

